Luke 19:41 (WEB)
When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
Catechism · 1
“But now they are hid from your eyes."” — Catechism footnote: Lk 19:41-42.
Fathers and councils · 20
Jerome
““Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears: that I might weep,” not as Jeremiah says, “For the slain of my people,” nor as Jesus, for the miserable fate of Jerusalem, but for holiness, mercy, innocence, chastity, and all the virtues, for all are gone now that Blæsilla is dead.” — editor's note: Luke xix. 41.
Read the whole comment“The Lord wept for the fall of Jerusalem, and He would not have done so if He did not love it.” — editor's note: Luke xix. 41.
Read the whole comment“The Saviour also wept over the city of Jerusalem because its inhabitants had not repented; and Peter washed out his triple denial with bitter tears, thus fulfilling the words of the prophet: “rivers of waters run down mine eyes.”” — editor's note: Luke xix. 41.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Blessed are they that mourn;” imitate Him, Who “wept over” Jerusalem.” — editor's note: Luke xix. 41
Read the whole comment“Here the account is briefly given: for how it all happened may be found at full length in the other evangelists.” — editor's note: Matt. xxi. 1–16; Mark xi. 1–11; Luke xix. 29–48.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Again, how great a mystery of word and act it is that Christ wept, that His eyes filled with tears from the anguish of His mind.” — editor's note: St. Luke xix. 41.
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Tertullian
“He expunged nineteen verses out of chap. xix., from the end of ver. 27 to the beginning of ver. 47.” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Luke
All the blessings which Jesus pronounced in His Gospel He confirms by His own example, as having declared, Blessed are the meek; He afterwards sanctions it by saying, Learn of me, for I am meek; and because He had…
Read the whole comment - Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
For Christ had compassion upon the Jews, who wills that all men should be saved. Which had not been plain to us, were it not revealed by a certain mark of His humanity. For tears poured forth are the tokens of sorrow.
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
The merciful Redeemer wept then over the fall of the false city, which that city itself knew not was about to come upon it. As it is added, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou (we may here understand) wouldest…
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If thou hadst known, even thou. The Jews were not worthy to receive the divinely inspired Scriptures, which relate the mystery of Christ. For as often as Moses is read, a veil overshadows their heart that they should…
Read the whole comment - Eusebius of CaesareaCatena Aurea on Luke
He here declares that His coming was to bring peace to the whole world. For unto this He came, that He should preach both to them that were near, and those that were afar off. But as they did not wish to receive the…
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By these words the Roman leaders are pointed out. For that overthrow of Jerusalem is described, which was made by the Roman emperors Vespasian and Titus.
Read the whole comment - Eusebius of CaesareaCatena Aurea on Luke
But how these things were fulfilled we may gather from what is delivered to us by Josephus, who though he was a Jew, related each event as it toot place, in exact accordance with Christ’s prophecies.
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on Luke
This too which is added, namely, They shall not leave in thee one stone upon another, is now witnessed in the altered situation of the same city, which is now built in that place where Christ was crucified without…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
That is, of my coming. For I came to visit and to save thee, which if thou hadst known and believed on Me, thou mightest have been reconciled to the Romans, and exempted from all danger, as did those who believed on…
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I do not deny then that the former Jerusalem was destroyed because of the wickedness of its inhabitants, but I ask whether the weeping might not perhaps concern this your spiritual Jerusalem. For if a man has sinned…
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For our Redeemer does not cease to weep through His elect whenever he perceives any to have departed from a good life to follow evil ways. Who if they had known their own damnation, hanging over them, would together…
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But our Jerusalem is also wept over, because after sin enemies surround it, (that is, wicked spirits,) and cast a trench round it to besiege it, and leave not a stone behind; especially when a man after long…
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Or else; The evil spirits lay siege to the soul, as it goes forth from the body, for being seized with the love of the flesh, they caress it with delusive pleasures. They surround it with a trench, because bringing…
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Cross-references · 2
Cited together in Origen on Luke 19:41–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §558.